The experience of xenophobia in South Africa

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 90-93

  Vromans, Lyn ^a   Schweitzer, Robert D ^a   Knoetze, Katharine ^b   Kagee, Ashraf ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Refugees; South Africa; Trauma; Violence; Xenophobia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEATH; EMBARRASSMENT; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEAR; FOREIGN WORKER; GENOCIDE; HUMILIATION; IMMIGRANT; MASS KILLING; MIGRATION; OFFENDER; PARESTHESIA; PHOBIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOUTH AFRICA; TRUST; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; XENOPHOBIA;

EID: 78650975345     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01075.x     Document Type: Article

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